Pro Haunted Houses
So I look around on some other forums about the pro haunts here in the DFW area. I like to read the reviews because basically it keeps me home so I do not have to spend money on these haunted houses. My number one gripe would have to be the price people chare for their haunts. Number two would be the multi haunt theme park. Who gets scared at a theme park? Now if it was like that film called Fun house that might be okay. Number three are the haunts that charge to park in a field. Now I might could see if it was concrete and there was an off duty cop watching my car but really a field which at one time had cows on it. I read these reviews and they all usually complain about not enough actors. Now maybe I am wrong and I have only been to two places that are supposedly haunted but aren't they vacant and abandoned? Now the Catfish Plantation is an active restaurant so its not vacant, but The Baker Hotel is vacant and locked down and was a spooky place if you let it get to you. Even on some of these shows on T.V. its a vacant place with no electricity. I think the term haunted house should be reserved for places that are like this. A revamping of the haunt industry to come up with a new term say maybe " Terror complex" or Asylum would make more sense to me. If your oging to have a bunch of nuts with blood on them whoare chainsaw knife wielding maniacs wouldn't make more sense that they were in an asylum. I have only been to one haunted house that actaully is ghost focused and that is Disney's Haunted Mansion. Also sorry ADA folks but most places have stairs and if they have elevators they don't work anymore because the electricity is out so bring a flashlight. I guess since we live in a workd that is so inundated with horror you have to fill the place with actors. Murder is what most houses are about so why don't they call them that? I have ideas for a haunt but since our media keeps our evenings filled with death, murder and mayhem will anyone be scared by a measily ghost filled haunted house anymore?